Honors English Lesson Plans

​Tuesday 5/16 (White)**If you will be gone for Region Track or AP exam on Thursday, come on Wednesday to take Research Portion of Semester Exam.View clip from Dear America: Letters Home from VietnamIn 2005, HBO released this movie, which is an authentic account of the Vietnam War from the actual letters of the men and women who served there. The harsh realities of life and death, friendships made and lost--these letters home tell it all, with newsreel and home-movie footage shot by the servicemen themselves. These are the authentic voices of war, some who survived, many who never made it home. Dear America is a living, breathing tribute to them all.--Don't leave class today without taking Quiz #7​--Please check comments in Infinite Campus. Did you print your Turnitin report for me?--Also, we need to log back in to Turnitin one last time and hit SUBMIT, so your original work gets added to the database.--Have you updated and shown me your resume? Remember to add the job shadow under education and update work experience and current activities. Show it to me and show me that it's in Google Drive.Assignment: **The Research portion of the Semester Exam will be on Wednesday. Locate your CRAPP notes to use for the test!! The only way to study for this test is to WRITE a research paper with a Works Cited page. You may use your own paper for the test, so be sure to have that AND your CRAPP notes in hand when you come on Thursday. Questions will be about MLA formatting, in-text citations, works cited, and the CRAPP test.​Currency: When was the information published, updated and/or revised? Is the information out-of-date for the topic?

Relevancy: How much information is presented? Does it provide a superficial treatment, or a detailed analysis? Is the information related and relevant to your topic? Is the readership level appropriate, neither too simple nor too sophisticated?

Authority: Not all books or journals in an academic library are scholarly. Who are the authors and/or editors and what are their credentials? For journals, are articles peer-reviewed, that is, do they have the approval of other experts in the field? For books, are they published by scholarly presses, popular presses, or self-published?

Accuracy: Does the source match your understanding of the topic? Can you verify the claims in other sources? Is there a bibliography or list of works cited? What types of sources, and how many relevant sources, are cited?

Purpose: Is the purpose stated? Is the subject approached from an objective standpoint? If not, what is the author's bias, and how might it influence the information presented?

Thursday 5/18 (White)Take the Research Portion of the Semester ExamReview for Semester ExamA large portion of the test will be over the novel and will include character matching, war terminology matching--go over novel glossary in packetWar on the Evening News Quiz (the worksheet with terms and Walter Cronkite)Review Fallen Angels Character List and on last page of packet or on sparknotesReview The Things They Carried Character List or on sparknotesReview Themes of the novels--see the posters on the board.For quick reminders, you could go back through Quia quizzes on the novel. Access them through Quia Student Zone.​​Monday 5/22 (White) Take Semester ExamTurn in your novel with Semester Exam.

​Previous Days' LessonsFriday 5/12 (White)Novel Quiz #5 & #6

Wednesday 5/10 (White)Novel Quiz #4​You will edit and update your resumes one more time based on your job shadow, your current job, other activities and/or honors from this year (HOSA, NHS, Academic All State Awards, Drama, FFA, Music, Track, etc). Resume MUST reflect your job shadow experience under Education section. Save it to Google Drive for safe-keeping over the summer until you need it next fall! To be safe, you might also send it to both school and non-school email. You will need it right away next fall for college and scholarship applications. SHOW IT TO ME in Google Drive.

Monday 5/8 (White)Novel Quiz #3

Reminders: 1. Last year at least a dozen juniors read both Vietnam novels. If you are a voracious reader with time on your hands, there are plenty of copies of both titles!

​✔️✔️✔️Papers due on Friday 5/5 by 3:30✔️✔️✔️

Thursday 5/4 (White)​Take Novel Quiz #2 today. Go to the novel tab above to access the quizzes. No talking at all to anyone during class. If I see a cell phone during class at any time, you will forfeit that day's quiz points.If you are not quizzing, you will be reading.If you are not reading, you will be finishing research paper.If you are finished with research paper, you will be reading.If you are finished with reading, you will be quizzing.Assignment: Peer Edit Research paper and turn in today or tomorrow by 3:30 . Read for Quiz #3 on Monday. Look ahead!

Tuesday 5/2 (White)**June ACT registration is due by THIS Friday, May 5!!Take Novel Quiz #1 today. Go to the novel tab above to access the quizzes. No talking at all to anyone during class. If I see a cell phone during class at any time, you will forfeit that day's quiz points.If you are not quizzing, you will be reading.If you are not reading, you will be finishing research paper.If you are finished with research paper, you will be reading.If you are finished with reading, you will be quizzing and so on!Happiness runs in a circular motion!Assignment: Self Edit Research paper. Read for Quiz #2 on Thursday

Click HERE to open theI-search Paper Self & Peer Eval. Get hard copy on back counter.

Due this Friday 5/5 by 3:30!You will use your folder to turn in1. Copies of Sources, including proof of Expert Interview (notes, YouTube video page, email, etc.)2. Printed Final Draft of paper. Also be sure that you have shared your Google Doc with me.3. Printed Turnitin.com Plagiarism report. Report must show that paper is 85-90% original (report will be a number between 10 and 15%), or you'll need to revise. We'll talk about this in class.

4. To access Turnitin, click to go to MyHRW.Follow these steps:**Do NOT run it through until you are satisfied that it is DONE because you get just 1 check per written assignment with our version. Again DO NOT use Turnitin until you are completely done with paper! If paper doesn't fulfill originality requirement, you'll have to re-write but won't be able to re-submit paper to Turnitin.1. Enter Username and password that I provide. You will be prompted to change your password. SAVE IT!2. You will see a Welcome to Dashboard message. Click Start3. Click Next, Next, Done4. Under My Assignments, you will see the I-Search Paper. Click Start.​5. In the white space on the left COPY and PASTE the text of your paper from the Title through your last paragraph. Do NOT include the Works Cited.6. Remove the pictures/images.7. Click the last command on the menu at the right Turnitin/erater​8. Now wait! It might be 5 or 15 or 30 minutes. 9. The report will come back.10. Because of Common Core testing, you have to turn pop up blockers off under Chrome Settings or Safari Settings.10. Click on the originality percentage to see full report of each source that was flagged.11. You'll print the report using the down arrow in upper right. Select Current View. File print.12. AFTER you have printed report, go to the SUBMIT button above your essay (3rd one over) to SUBMIT the essay to me so that I can see the plagiarism report in color and so that your paper will join the millions already in the database. You'll need to add the Title of the Paper.​​